My Master's Opinions!!!!!!
Hi, this is John P Bradley, and I'm here to
tell you that it is a good thing that the rottweiler
is an object of fright and terror. Otherwise we'd be
hip deep in them, and they'd probably take over our
civilization and right all wrongs. They're that smart.
I have raised poodles, cocker spaniels and the odd springer spaniel, and even a german shepard back before anyone heard of hip dysplasia, and the rottweiler is far and away the smartest of them. It's nice to have a dog around that understands commands around the third or fourth repetition. It's almost like they can read your mind. The downside is that they require lots of exercise and they will bust out of a fenced in enclosure on general principals. Instead of those cute chains from Petco or the grocery store, I have had to make serious chains from the kind of stuff that would secure a paper machine in a rural location or even provide traction for your car. Chester, and later Hester, (yeah from the Hustler magazine comic strip), would pull open the kind of chain that supports a 300 pound man on a swing set.